Dress for you

When someone says "Technofur?" YOU say "No, thank you."

Holy Mother of God, look at this dress. You know, if you had asked me yesterday, "Hey, Erin, what word would you think would be least likely to follow the word techno?" I would have come right back with "Fur, definitely fur." But I would be wrong … because here is Technofur, in all its "glory." Now I know what Furbies wear to go clubbing.

According to FreshBakedGoods.com, who is selling this dress (click on the image to go there), "TechnoFur is available in: black, bright red, burgundy, bronze, light grey, dark grey, lime, hot pink, bright turquoise, [and] white." You know, nobody on the planet can wear a white Technofur dress and look good. (Yes, not even But I bet might TRY.) Trust me on this.

I don't even want to know how much they had to dope up that model to make her smile like that. Especially when I know she's thinking "dress itches … mustn't scratch … dress itches … mustn't scratch …"

If this dress makes you go "oooh, I want!" and feel all tingly? You are dead to me. Seriously. But — as a parting kindness — if you do throw caution, good sense, and all hope of personal style to the wind and get this dress? Please don't wear it with Thank you.

I don’t make pronouncements about what to wear with bathing suits. Knock yourself out! 🙂 Hey, I keep meaning to ask you — have you ever made your McCalls’ 4050? The one with the pleated bust? How did it work?

Last weekend at a party, a guest asked what I thought of technofur. I dribbled something like, “Yeah, I dug their earlier stuff, but I just burned out on it. I really only listen to anti-folk now.” Oops!

I find that shoe site more disturbing than the dress. I… I have no words. They… the hell?I have never seen so much wrongness concentrated in one area in my life. I think I might be Amish, because this site is seriously freaking me out.

I think what makes the dress so hideous is actually the yarn pattern and style itself, rather than the technofur – in googling “technofur” (because aside from being an intriguingly terrifying concept, it’s also an interesting word, as you pointed out) it seems that it’s actually an adored-by-knitters-for-its-fluffy-softness yarn, which is all I can find from several knitting message boards (and they all also mention that it doesn’t itch…are we to believe??).

I like the color and pattern of the fabric. I think I would have to get a swatch to be wierded out by the texture. If that were cotton, it would make an awesome blazer and skirt set. Don’t get up. I’ll ban myself.